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Command and staff training (KSHT) with military authorities, formations and military units has started on Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands, the headquarters of the Eastern Military District (VVO) reported on Monday.

The MiG-31BM interceptor fighters worked out the elements of air combat and conducted missile firing over the Pacific Ocean.

According to the press service of the Pacific Fleet, the training was attended by aircraft of a separate mixed aviation regiment of Troops and forces.

The ground forces of Saudi Arabia began to actively use heavy flamethrower systems TOS-1A against supporters of the Ansar Allah movement.

In social networks, there were shots of night shooting of one of these combat vehicles. The installation was deployed in a desert area and fired five 220-mm rockets at the enemy.

The Northern Fleet began training exercises involving ships, submarines, aircraft and air defense systems. The main purpose of the maneuvers is to ensure the security of Russia's economic activities in the Arctic, the Russian Defense Ministry said. They noted that during the training, rescue operations, assistance at sea, crisis resolution, as well as the protection and defense of maritime communications will also be practiced.

"Orlan-10E" transmitted the coordinates of the target to the control machine, which calculated the settings for firing and sent them to the crew

Specialists of the Uralvagonzavod State Corporation Rostec demonstrated to the representatives of the foreign customer the interaction of the Msta-S self-propelled howitzer, upgraded to the NATO 155 mm caliber, and the Orlan-10E reconnaissance drone. This was reported to journalists on Monday in the press service of Rostec.

Russian strategic aircraft Tu-160 and Tu-95MS have once again confirmed their high combat effectiveness. During the command and staff exercise, their crews, who rose from the Engels air base in the Saratov region, successfully hit targets with cruise missiles at the Pemboy training ground in the Komi Republic. In total, about a dozen aircraft were involved in the exercise. And the precise strikes of the missile carriers were recorded by means of objective control.

After a recent software update, the German Air Force's Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets were able to use the new MBDA Meteor air — to-air missile.

Formations of the 58th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District (SE) have worked out combat training tasks as part of heterogeneous tactical groups at the military training ground "Opuk" in the Crimea, the press service of the SE reported.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic called the work of the Republican army and police, which were equipped with Russian anti-aircraft missile and gun systems (ZRPC) "Pantsir-S1" and Mi-35 helicopters, very effective, RIA Novosti reports.

The Smerch 9M55K5 and 9M531 multiple rocket launchers are effective weapons against lightly armored vehicles and enemy personnel. The difference between them is in the range of the flight. The first one can hit 70 km, and the second one can hit 90 km.

The strategic nuclear submarine of the project 955A of the Borey-A class "Prince Oleg "will be ready for transfer to the Russian Navy in October, the General Director of the United Shipbuilding Corporation Alexey Rakhmanov said in an interview with RIA Novosti on April 15.

The Russian army may be armed with a new light multiple launch rocket system. This weapon is developed by specialists of the NGO "SPLAV", which is part of the concern"Techmash".

As part of the tactical exercise, the air defense units of the Southern Military District conducted live firing from S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems at air targets at the specialized Telemba training ground in Buryatia.

This summer, the Russian and Belarusian military will begin joint combat duty on air defense (air defense) at one of the airfields in Belarus.

In 1969, during the border conflict over the island of Damansky, the Soviet side very successfully used the new BM-21 Grad MLRS. The Chinese military was very impressed with the power of the new weapon. When a captured BM-21 fell into their hands ten years later, they immediately copied it and began to improve it in stages.

Formations of the 58th Combined-arms Army of the Southern Military District (SE) have worked out combat training tasks as part of diverse tactical ones at the Opuk combined-arms training ground in the Crimea, the press service of the SE.

The first team of recruits of the Strategic Missile Forces arrived in the Tatishchev rocket compound (Saratov region) for military service on conscription. Many of the recruits have higher education and sports categories in various sports.

Syrian attack helicopters are used not only during the day, but also during combat missions at night. So, in the Network there were shots of the Mi-24P attack on a ground target, made in the dark.

The enemy was fired from a twin 30-mm automatic gun GSH-30K. This gun is considered one of the most powerful among those used on rotorcraft.

The naval search and strike group consisting of the small anti-submarine ships "Snezhnogorsk", "Brest" and "Junga" conducted an anti-aircraft defense exercise in the Barents Sea, the Northern Fleet said.

According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the first unit equipped with combat robots will be formed in the Russian army in the near future. According to the head of the General Staff of the Ground Forces V. Tonkoshurov, we are talking about five "Uran-9" robocomplexes developed by specialists of 766 UPTK (Nakhabino, Moscow region). In total, the unit will receive two dozen combat vehicles.